How do we know the people of karamah (miracles granted to a righteous person)?
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The questioner:
The questioner says: There are those who claim some karamah, and those who attribute to themselves that what they do is a karamah. So how do I distinguish?
The Shaykh:
If a person has a karamah or a supernatural event, look at his actions. If he is a believer and sincere, then this is assistance from Allah, and it is a karamah. But if he is a disbeliever, a hypocrite, or a sorcerer, then this is a humiliation from Allah, a Satanic supernatural event, to misguide him, to misguide him thereby. Yes. Look at his actions, not at the supernatural event with him. Look at his actions: are they good, or are they not good? Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If I tell a person
The Shaykh:
And they may fly in the air and walk on water, because the jinn serve them and carry them in the air, carry them on the water. They may enter the Fire and enter the Fire, because they employ tricks that prevent the heat of the Fire from them, or the jinn carry them away from the Fire, or they perform a trick to deceive your vision that they entered the Fire when they did not enter it. Rather, this is a trick they performed, a type of sorcery. So do not believe them in these matters. Yes.
The questioner says: There are those who claim some karamah, and those who attribute to themselves that what they do is a karamah. So how do I distinguish?
The Shaykh:
If a person has a karamah or a supernatural event, look at his actions. If he is a believer and sincere, then this is assistance from Allah, and it is a karamah. But if he is a disbeliever, a hypocrite, or a sorcerer, then this is a humiliation from Allah, a Satanic supernatural event, to misguide him, to misguide him thereby. Yes. Look at his actions, not at the supernatural event with him. Look at his actions: are they good, or are they not good? Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If I tell a person
The Shaykh:
And they may fly in the air and walk on water, because the jinn serve them and carry them in the air, carry them on the water. They may enter the Fire and enter the Fire, because they employ tricks that prevent the heat of the Fire from them, or the jinn carry them away from the Fire, or they perform a trick to deceive your vision that they entered the Fire when they did not enter it. Rather, this is a trick they performed, a type of sorcery. So do not believe them in these matters. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف نعرف أصحاب الكرامات؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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